File-box.



N0. 634,06l. Patented Oct. 3, I899.

,F. MAGEY.

FILE BOX.

(Application filed an. 15, 1e99,

(llvoaIadolJ M01942" 2 5 s fl w Mme/aw aqua-M m: ucmms mews 1:0,, mu'ro-umu wAsumnTnm n. c.

UNIT D STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRED-MAGEY, OF GRAND. RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

FILE-BOX.

sPEoIFIcn'IIIoN forming part of Letters Patent No. 634,061, dated October a, 1899.

Application filed January 16. 1 899 Serial No. 702,2 5 6. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern;

Be it known that LFRED MAQEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in File-Boxes 5 and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in boxes for file-cases; and its object is to pro vide the box with a suitable drop-front,whereby the contents are readily accessible without removing the box from the case, and to provide the device with certain new and useful features hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective of a device embodying my invention, and Fig.2 a vertical section of the same through two of the boxes shown at the left of Fig. 1.

Likeletters refer to like parts in both of the figures. V

A represents any suitable case having rectangular compartments to receive the boxes and open at the front.

B represents the main portion of the box,

which portion has a bottom, top, sides, and rear end, all permanently attached to each other, the bottom being longer than the top and of less length than the depth of the compartment in the case A, and the sides have inclined front edges extending from the front edge of the bottom to the same of the top.

Beneath the bottom of the box B and attached thereto is a subbottom consisting of two parts B and B, the latter of which extends beyondthe bottom of the box B and to the full depth of the compartment in the case A. This subbottom is provided withahinge D near the front of the bottom of the box B and beneath the same, and its forward portion B turns freely on this hinge. To this front portion B is attached a suitable panel E, adapted to close the front opening of the compartment in the case A. Connecting the sides of thepanel and the hinged portion B of the subbottom are triangular sides 0, havinginclined rear edges and arranged outside the planes of the sides of the box B. F is a suitable pull or handle whereby the box may be drawn out of the compartment in the case A.

The subbottom B, together with the front portion'B thereof, forms acontinuous plane surface for the box and slides freely on the tion B of the bottomjthe sides G and the panel E will close freely over the ends of the papers in the box B and be properly held in place in the compartmen t and close the same when fully run back into said compartment.

When the box is drawn out of the compartment to a point beyondthe hinge D, this front will swing downward wholly below thefront end of the box B, thus fully exposing the ends of all of thepapers contained in the box.

Having thus fully described my invention, what 'I claim, and wish to-secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a file-case, the combination with asupporting-casing of a drawer movable horizontally therein, a supplemental bottom for said drawer extending over the whole of the true bottom and projecting beyond the outer end of the latter, and a front consisting of two parts united at their edges at a right angle one to the other, an edge of one of said parts being hinged to the outer edge of the true bottom of the drawer beneath'the projecting portion of the supplemental bottom.

2. The combination of a substantially rectangular boxhaving an open front end, a subboxes, panels attached to the subbottoins at the front and closing the openings in the ease, and triangular sides connecting the panels and subbottoms and overlapping the boxes on the outside of their lowerfront portions, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature 20 in presence of two witnesses.

FRED MAOEY.

\Vitnesses:

LEWIS E. FLANDERS, LUTHER V. MoULToN. 

